Cape Horn

noun

1. a headland on a small island at the southern extremity of South America: belongs to Chile.

Cape Horn

noun

1. Also called: the Horn. a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific

Example Sentences

The 51-mile-long canal avoids the need for ships to make the much longer voyage around Cape Horn at the tip of South America.

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The virus continues spreading down the Chilean coast towards Cape Horn.

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The town’s location near the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge offers easy access to natural attractions such as the Cape Horn Lookout, Beacon Rock State Park and the Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

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From there, she continued east where Brauer faced the unpredictable, treacherous and deadly Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America before continuing northeast across the Atlantic Ocean toward Spain.

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The GSC sees sailors travel from Spain in a bid to circumnavigate the globe south of the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn.

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